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I buy these from a guy who bought crates of them years ago with the intention of selling parts. He throws everything I need to put a complete rifle together into a box and ships it to me for $120. He rummages through and finds me a "good one" every time, the finish and bore on these are immaculate. This is what arrived yesterday...

_________________"Is my HP my favorite gun? No... Is it the BEST value? Very likely. Will it work when you need it to go bang? I'd bet my life on it."Attributed to Ex and he'll take credit for anything he can get!

"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to stand by and do nothing."Attributed to Edmund Burke, though it's source cannot be proven.

"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything"Alexander Hamilton

Sorry to see you go Dean. Never enough time and it makes us all realize just what being mortal is. You have been a true friend to me and I will miss you every day.

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson

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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” — General George S. Patton

May we always realize the cost of our freedom. We can never repay them, but the very least we can do is uphold the ideals that they died protecting and honor them in the choices we make each day.

”If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” -James MadisonIt's gettin close boys. The time is near.

The greatest RE-productive force is human selfishness (Say NO! to population growth!).

--No good deed goes unpunished--

When we do good, nobody remembers, when we do bad, nobody forgets. --unknown

Just because you are unnatural, bizarre, bring problems on yourself, and don't fit in does not mean I dislike you...well, yeah it does

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson

This forum is only as good as YOU make it. Lets all work together and have a forum we can be proud of! But lets not forget to have FUN while we do it!

Comments, suggestions and opinions are always welcome. If I can help, I will.

Happy shooting Dave Gillespie - (Sharp Shooter), you will be missed and remembered.

We will miss you Jerry Roberts - (woodyubet), you will not be forgotten.

We are better off from having known you Dean Stephens -(ampersand) It wont be the same around here without you.

A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

Well, they're not "collectible" as none of the numbers match but I actually work to get as many parts as possible correct as far as the same arsenal and in most cases the right stock. This one is wrong as its in a postwar stock instead of prewar but I don't have any on hand at the moment. Most of your refurbs actually end up with a mix of arsenals in them if you look close, my "matching numbers" 42 Tula actually has one barrel band and the bolt head from Izhevsk.

I agree, the vast majority of numbers matching MN rifles are forced matched by the refurb factories. Some are obvious with electro pencil and crossed out and restamped numbers, some they removed the old numbers and stamped new matching numbers on the parts.

This forum is only as good as YOU make it. Lets all work together and have a forum we can be proud of! But lets not forget to have FUN while we do it!

Comments, suggestions and opinions are always welcome. If I can help, I will.

Happy shooting Dave Gillespie - (Sharp Shooter), you will be missed and remembered.

We will miss you Jerry Roberts - (woodyubet), you will not be forgotten.

We are better off from having known you Dean Stephens -(ampersand) It wont be the same around here without you.

A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

Most of the bolts I get from him have had the numbers scrubbed off, if I wanted to be shady I could hunt down metal stamps the same size as the serial numbers on the barrel and stamp the bolts but I ain't like that.

I may be drawing to a close on these... my shooting buddy finally admitted today that he's never going to be able to do anything with the 1968 Mustang that he has sitting in the woods at his place, but he doesn't think it's worth much of anything as it needs so much work. So we traipsed down through the brush to where it sits and I gave it a looking over. Usual floor pans gone on the drivers side, needs a new hood, lower rear on the right front fender has "bubble" rust popping up but fenders are cheap for these Stangs. Engine may or may not be free, it only had 200 miles on it when he parked it but he needed the carb for something else and now it has a wild critter nest on top of the engine... if whatever it was built the nest there before enough moisture got down inside to freeze up the motor, that would be a good thing but I'll count it as needing a new motor or this one overhauled again. Looking through Craigslist and other ads it looks like I'll have to sink about $2000 into it, doing all the work myself, but the wife has always wanted an early Mustang.

This forum is only as good as YOU make it. Lets all work together and have a forum we can be proud of! But lets not forget to have FUN while we do it!

Comments, suggestions and opinions are always welcome. If I can help, I will.

Happy shooting Dave Gillespie - (Sharp Shooter), you will be missed and remembered.

We will miss you Jerry Roberts - (woodyubet), you will not be forgotten.

We are better off from having known you Dean Stephens -(ampersand) It wont be the same around here without you.

A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."